Kim, I think he was just displaying some more soft-bigotry-pride, which we all need to respect, lest we be bigots ourselves.

There is no bigotry here. The fat comment was humor in response to your first silly bigotry comment.

The fact that I can't bear listening to Diane Rehm because of her voice is not bigotry. I find her voice annoying and distracting. The cause of her manner of vocalization is a non-issue, I make no judgement on it.

And if you actually think it is bigotry, then respecting it so as not to be a bigot yourself is really, really fucked up thinking.

Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.

(19-08-2012 06:59 AM)Jeff Wrote: Kim, I think he was just displaying some more soft-bigotry-pride, which we all need to respect, lest we be bigots ourselves.

There is no bigotry here. The fat comment was humor in response to your first silly bigotry comment.

The fact that I can't bear listening to Diane Rehm because of her voice is not bigotry. I find her voice annoying and distracting. The cause of her manner of vocalization is a non-issue, I make no judgement on it.

And if you actually think it is bigotry, then respecting it so as not to be a bigot yourself is really, really fucked up thinking.

Hmmm, is this another case of terse humor gone awry? Or am I being hoist by my own petard? I was trying to be funny Chas, I don't think you're a bigot.

(19-08-2012 07:05 AM)Chas Wrote: There is no bigotry here. The fat comment was humor in response to your first silly bigotry comment.

The fact that I can't bear listening to Diane Rehm because of her voice is not bigotry. I find her voice annoying and distracting. The cause of her manner of vocalization is a non-issue, I make no judgement on it.

And if you actually think it is bigotry, then respecting it so as not to be a bigot yourself is really, really fucked up thinking.

Hmmm, is this another case of terse humor gone awry? Or am I being hoist by my own petard? I was trying to be funny Chas, I don't think you're a bigot.

Never mind.

Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.

I love podcasts! The good thing about my job is that I get to listen to my iPod all day (with only one headphone, but hey, at least it's something). I pretty much listen to podcasts all day. I assume that you mean more atheist/skeptical podcasts, so I'll mainly suggest those, but I'll include others as well.

Atheist/Skeptical Podcasts:

Ask an Atheist
The Atheist Experience
InKredulous (This is a skeptical news game show)
The Magic Sandwich Show
The Non Prophets
Oh No, Ross and Carrie (The hosts of this podcast investigate various religious/pseudo-scientific claims and report back)
Skeptics with a K
Skeptoid
Witnesses for Atheism (This podcast is no longer being made, but it's from the perspective of former JW's which I thought was interesting)
Debate God - RSS (I only found this one recently, but it has a lot of Hitchens debates, and also Michael Shermer, Sam Harris, Dan Barker and others)

Podcasts I have in my queue, but haven't tried out yet:

Ardent Atheist with Emery Emery
The Pseudo Scientists (By the Young Australian Skeptics)
The Skeptic Zone

Science Podcasts:
The Infinite Monkey Cage (Hosted by Prof. Brian Cox and Robin Ince, with various scientists as panelists)
Astronomy 161 - Introduction to Solar System Astronomy
Material World (Various science news stories, lots of guests are on every week to discuss)

Other:
A short History of Japan
Savage Lovecast
Stuff you Should Know
We're Alive - A "Zombie" story of survival (this one is a lot of fun, fully voice acted with sound effects, a very cool radio drama)

(Edited to remove Living After Faith, because I see that you already know about that one. )

So far the Hitchens Debates that I have heard on the Debate God - RSS Podcast, have all been pretty similar. I think that the debates must have been around when his book God is Not Great came out, because he does use a lot of the same arguments. However, since it is a live debate, he does rephrase things, and adjust according to what his opponent says, so it's still interesting to me.